I'm looking for a few beta testers who would be interesting in spending a half hour checking out a drum machine I've built/designed for Live 8. There's just a few questions I'll have for you and you get to keep the drum machine (which includes almost 1000 drum sounds). Mike's on the list but I would love to have 5 or 6 people give it a good look.

Please email me through the forum. Total time required is probably 30 - 40 minutes.

Magenta comes as a simple drag and drop Ableton Live Pack. Each pad contains a library of individual electronic drum sounds that are accessible simply by scrolling through a virtual knob (very similar to scrolling through oscillators on a wave table synthesizer). For Example, the bass drum pad has 127 bass drums that are accessible at any time simply by turning a knob. This allows freedom to explore drum sounds during play back without the hassle of loading external samples or searching through your hard drive. In addition, automation of the scrolling knob allows you to automate sample changes on the fly.Each sound also has its own set of 7 control knobs that radically manipulate and tweak the sample.

Magenta also includes three uniquely designed all synthesized bass, snare, and hat, each able to produce an exceptional range of funky to minimal drum sounds. Each of the 3 synthesized sounds have 8 control knobs that completely sculpt and process the 3 pads.

Thanks so much for giving me the positive feedback needed to finish this project. This weekend it will go live. The link below is pretty much the final manual with sound samples added. Check them out. This thing is wild. Figured it needed a virtual hardware representation. Of course it won't sit right but that's why it's virtual. Plus, wood on the lap would be nice. Brooks and Mike, I'll be sending you a link to your download this weekend. Thanks again for taking a look at this.

So you are done beta testing it? My buddy (I was hoping) may have had time this weekend to look at it from a MAC perspective but if you're cool with everything else, good luck! I actually worked on some percussion stuff today and saved off a set to continue working on for Mired In Twilight.....but if you had a final one to test send me a link to my darkenedsoul@comcast.net email and I'll fire it up some time later this weekend (that's if you are not finalized, if not, cool on my end, hopefully my buddy will check out the initial one though for kicks).